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Former representative of the Rivers South-East Senatorial District in the National Assembly, Senator Magnus Abe, has described former Lagos State Governor, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, as a promoter of excellence, saying he is capable and qualified to become Nigeria’s President in 2023.

Also, he said the National leader of the All Progressives Congress is one leader that places capacity and competence above loyalty in all his dealings.

Abe said this during a breakfast meeting with journalists in Port Harcourt, Rivers State capital on Tuesday.

He explained that the story of Lagos State and where it is today cannot be discussed without mentioning Tinubu.

Abe added, “The most important job of a leader is to pick people. If you look at the quality of people that Asiwaju picked and the way he promotes quality people in everything, they stand out.

“The one thing that has kept Africa where it is today is that leaders prefer loyalty above capacity and competence. Asiwaju is one of few leaders in Africa who picks capacity and competence above loyalty and promotes excellence in every way

“So I think he is eminently qualified and other people who think they are qualified are also free to indicate their interest.”

While making a veiled reference to the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, Abe said Nigerians don’t want
anybody who does not like money to come near the presidency.

Recall that Amaechi has in several fora said he does not like money.

But Abe stated that “we need a leader at this point who understands money and knows how to generate money because that is the biggest problem in this country today.

Farid24224:
Still searching for the beauty...

abouzaid:
Most university graduates in Nigeria would have been better off if they skipped the university to learn practical skills instead. School na scam.

Dsalvo:
Lol. Why did Ohanaeze not say all this crap about Atiku? The main headache of an Igbo man is the fear of being upstaged by a Yoruba.

Anyone else can disgrace them, like their Fulani slave masters in the PDP, and they would be fine with that.

Yet, god forbid a Yoruba man is above them at anything.

"Turn of the Igbos" yet you cannot begin that agitation in the PDP where Igbos have a genuine stake?

It is Tinubu they now want to scapegoat for an ambition no Nigerian is interested in? I hope Tinubu learns from this and stop indulging these ingrates who are never happy until they own everything belonging to others. Disgraceful folks.

Charisma01:
This guy that was involved in centenary city scandal

Quelme:
Tinubu will take this flat head to the cleaners outrightly!!!

Flawless victory. I see Tinubu coasting home to victory if this is the best of PDP.

ThisisBuhari:
1. Simon Lalong- Plateau State Governor

2. Yakubu Dogara- Former Speaker

3. Babagana Zulum- Borno State Governor

4. Nasir El Rufai- Kaduna State Governor

deboysben:
If PDP wants to win in 2023 they should zone the president to North simple.

A former governor of Kano State, Rabiu Kwankwaso, has argued against the call for zoning the 2023 presidential ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the Southern part of Nigeria.

Mr Kwankwaso made his position known in an interview with Channels Television on Sunday night where he also spoke about several political concerns ahead of the 2023 general elections.

In his argument, the two-term governor of Kano State condemned the insistence of the Southern Governors Forum in July 2021 that the next president of the country must come from their region rather than what is best.

He considered the call by the governors and other leaders as an attempt to intimidate the northern region into relinquishing its right to contest the seat.

Mr Kwankwaso said the decision to contest should be based on strategy rather than mere clamour or sentiments.

With reference to former President Olusegun Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan, Mr Kwankwaso, who is eyeing the 2023 presidential ticket of the PDP, said the party had produced more southern presidents than the north.

“You see many people are mixing what ordinarily shouldn’t come together at all. We have PDP, we have APC, we have APGA and we have many other parties today in this country. And the issue of where a party put his presidency or vice presidency is a matter of strategy.

“If you look at it from 1999, to date, or even after 2023, we have 16 years for PDP, eight years for APC. Now, in the 16 years of PDP, we had a situation where the presidency has been in the south for 14 years and only in the north for two years during the Umaru Musa Yar’Adua of blessed memory.

“Now we see some people, maybe because they don’t understand politics or they want to be mischievous, they keep on mixing the two issues of two political parties together. This PDP and APC are contestants in this game,” he said.

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As it stands, neither the APC nor PDP has announced the zoning of its presidential ticket for next year’s election.

The reluctance of the two major parties in the country to do so has provoked speculations that they may throw the ticket open to all aspirants.

Speaking on speculations of his possible defection from PDP to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr Kwankwaso debunked the rumour and reiterated his commitment to ensure victory for his party in the 2023 polls.

In his explanation, he traced the genesis of the speculation to leave the PDP to the treatment meted out on him and his supporters during the party’s congress in Kaduna in 2021.

“As we speak, there is no plan for me to leave the PDP, to join APC, or any other party.

“Of course, there were issues which are very clear to almost everybody; that we had congress in April last year in Kaduna, which I felt and many of my supporters in the North-west and even beyond felt that I was not being treated well and Kano was not being treated the way it should be.


“And therefore, I believe that was the beginning of those issues to the extent that people thought because of that, we would leave the PDP for APC or any other party,” he said, while noting the reconciliatory efforts of the party leaders.

Allies turned rivals
When asked about his feud with Governor Abdullahi Ganduje, who was his deputy while in office, Mr Kwankwaso maintained a neutral tone.


However, without stating the real cause of their prolonged differences, Mr Kwankwaso chronicled his contributions to Mr Ganduje’s political growth.

He said Mr Ganduje never visited him since he assumed office as governor in 2015 until last December.

The governor, in December 2021, visited Mr Kwankwaso at his Bompai residence in Kano, over the death of his brother, Inuwa Kwankwaso.

The duo had worked together for years before falling out in 2015.

Mr Ganduje had served as Mr Kwankwaso’s deputy during his first and second terms in office. He also worked as a Special Adviser to the former governor when he was appointed as Minister of Defence in ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo’s government.

As a sitting PDP governor, Mr Kwankwaso had joined the APC in 2014 and contested for the party’s presidential ticket in 2015 but lost to Mr Buhari.

He returned to PDP in 2018 and contested in its presidential primaries which he also lost to former Vice President Atiku Abubakar.

Gentlevip:
I love my country
I hate compounding problems to one man. This is what we always do to presidents.
I think only Murtala and Shonekan were saved from public lambasting.

Maybe because they didn't live long in office

I prefer to hear solutions, not this man is buffoon or calamity or disaster or ugly or wicked or....

Akiara:
Enugu Sienna Car was Burnt ...Anambra Sienna car was Burnt ...all on a Monday. After Isi Uzo killings by Fulani herdsmen. The Propaganda is spearheaded by Punch newspapers. A news outfit that brazenly removed a piece where "Tinubu" stated that he doesn't believe in the Nigeria Project. They also removed where this same "Tinubu" called Buhari names.

Now this same News paper is talking nonsense to create a narrative that the SE is unstable, just for Presidential ticket and patronage. These SW people are terrible.

@op keep posting 99.9% IGBOs have rejected the Nigerian Project...spits!!

Torylanez:
Instead of u to answer simple questions to prove your points you are busy insulting and proving stubborn

U are doing all this to run away from the real issues

Until you answer those questions, I will take u as a noise maker with no evidence, just an internet troll

helinues:
Atiku or no erection in SE

Factfinder1:
Very commendable of the members..

This year no room for fake pulpit bandits..
Did you notice how all the mouth running God of men who always release prophecies every new year suddenly went mute.
Covid 19 humbled them,non of then saw it coming, most of them entered debts because they couldn't pay debts when churches were shut down because of lack of inflow of offerings and tithes...should we now say 98% of the men of God in NIGERIA are fake??